Bush the Uniter

Via Matthew Yglesias, I see that the Gadflyer's Paul Waldman has an article about an issue that makes me really uncomfortable with the Republican party, their habit of speaking derisively of large portions of the country they aspire to lead. It's not just states, though. Occupations like lawyers and college professors draw their scorn and ire as they play toward the prejudices of their base in cropping people out of the American community. Democrats, by contrast, go out of their way to speak respectfully of the south and small-town America while directing their fire mainly at non-human institutions such as corporations. Although they are often accused of class warfare, saying the rich shouldn't have a tax cut is a long way from saying they are evil. So which party is it that's really going to unite us, again?